Testimony of Healing August 21, 1948 Issue

I was born in Puerto Rico, under...

Elisa D. Liesegang

In 1920 my oldest sister, who had been sick for years with serious stomach and organic troubles and who had been pronounced incurable, was healed of the fear of disease: and in following years I saw her work out her problems of ill-health, inharmony, and lack of supply through the study and application of Christian Science. Because I had studied English I used to translate paragraphs of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy for her. I started to study the weekly Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, to attend the Sunday and Wednesday church services, and to accompany my sister to lectures in New York City. Little by little I learned to reject erroneous thinking and to turn my thoughts toward Spirit. Since then I have attended no other church. I have absolute faith in the teachings of Mrs. Eddy, and through the application of them I have received the greatest wealth there is, the knowledge of God.

I have been healed of goiter through the help of a practitioner. One of the thoughts this practitioner gave me to work with was that God is omnipotent and omnipresent. I studied the definition of "omni" in the dictionary and learned, as Mrs. Eddy also explains, that the word means all, everywhere. Therefore God, good, fills all space. After I understood this, my healing came.

Through the devoted help of the same practitioner we had a beautiful demonstration. Our daughter, who was then five years old, had an acute stomach condition with severe pains, and she had so much fear that for over twenty-four hours she would not taste even water; she had convulsions, and her face was distorted. The practitioner, who lived in New York, whereas we lived in New Jersey, decided to visit us and arrived at our home at midnight. During the trip she worked to break the mesmerism of human mother-love, and by the time she arrived the child was resting peacefully. I learned a very important lesson from this experience. From then on I have seen this child as God's child and have released her from false human attachment.

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